If you haven’t succumbed to the charms of smaller motorcycles by now, it’s probably because you haven’t ridden one yet. That’s the opinion of Tom Gilroy, founder of Purpose Built Moto in Queensland, Australia. And judging by the work his shop’s done on this cheeky Suzuki GN250 scrambler, you can tell they’re true believers.
?Once you liven up a small bike a bit with a few performance mods, and get a bit of weight off them, you?re hard-pressed to find a bike that?s more fun to ride,? he says. ?Anywhere you point this GN250 its going to deliver a smile to your face. All you gotta do is rip back the throttle and enjoy!?

PBM have some history with the humble Suzuki GN250. The first custom GN250 they ever built was also their first customer project, their first scrambler, and the first bike to garner them attention online. This one’s the third GN the shop’s built, and it draws on lessons learned from the first two. ?This time around we were given the base bike and told to go again, but better,? says Tom. ?I do love these little bikes, so I was happy to oblige for our rider, Shane. The GN250 was in his family for a long time before we received it, and had been in storage for some time.?

PBM can run the full gamut of custom build styles, from mild to wild. But for this little scrambler, their goal was something clean and functional.
?The idea was to firstly improve on our previous builds, but most of all keep this project painf...